{"id":88948,"date":"2022-08-19T14:01:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T08:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=88948"},"modified":"2025-07-03T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:51:37","slug":"weekly-trademark-updates-india-trademark-news-gi-lambo-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/weekly-trademark-updates-india-trademark-news-gi-lambo-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Trademark Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This week\u2019s trademark updates are as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A piracy of &#8216;Torts&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the matter of Allahabad Law Agency v. Amazon Retail India Pvt. Ltd. &amp; Ors., the plaintiff sought for permanent injunction against several sellers on the defendant&#8217;s platform who have been found selling pirated versions of the book- &#8216;Law of Torts&#8217; by Dr. RK Bangia. A Delhi Court, understanding the gravity of the situation, has passed an ex-parte ad-interim injunction restraining the defendants and several others from either publishing, selling, soliciting, networking or supplying the pirated copy of the book. The Court has appointed Advocate Amit Kumar Gupta as local commissioner to seize any copies using the trademark of Allahabad Law Agency. The Court stated that- &#8220;<em>Prima facie case is made out under Order XXVI Rule 9 read with Section 151 CPC for appointment of local commissioner with the submissions that nature of case warrants an ex-parte order for appointment of local commissioner for the purpose of prima facie ascertaining the alleged acts of infringement, passing off by the defendant in respect of products of plaintiff&#8221;<\/em>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A \u2018CURLY\u2019 confusion<\/span><\/h2>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Delhi High Court recently detained a manufacturer from using the trademark CRAX &#8216;CURLS&#8217;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the matter of DFM FOODS LIMITED v. CHANDEL STORE &amp; ORS., the Delhi High Court held the Defendant\u2019s mark KURVY and its packaging to be using deceptively similar to Plaintiff\u2019s CRAX CURLS and its packaging. The court held that, \u2018..the goods being of low monetary value and being sold over the counter of grocery stores, as also other small shops, the attention span of an average consumer is low and such unwary consumer can be easily deceived.\u2019<\/span><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vote for your favourite GI\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A public poll is being conducted by The Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs &amp; Trade Marks (CGPDTM) on the most liked Geographical Indication (GI) in India. Users can participate in the poll by providing their names, email addresses and mobile numbers. The poll, open till October 2nd, 2022, allows users to choose the GIs most liked by them under each GI category, namely Agriculture, Food Stuff, Handicraft, Manufactured and Natural.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lambo.com domain won by Lamborghini<\/span><\/h2>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Automobile Lamborghini S.p.A., owner and manufacturer of Lamborghini cars, filed a case with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against Richard Blair, a domain investor and owner of the domain Lambo.com. Richard Blair, commonly known as Lambo had been using the domain. A WIPO panel, via its Administrative Panel Decision dated August 3rd, 2022 ordered that the disputed domain name be transferred to Lamborghini as Richard Blair did not provide enough evidence to support his claim.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Authored by Lavanya Anand (Associate, BananaIP Counsels) and Dinesh G (Intern).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This post is brought to you by BananaIP Counsels\u2019 Trademarks and Copyright Attorneys<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">About BananaIP Counsels\u2019 Trademarks and Copyright Attorneys<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This Weekly Trademark Updates Bulletin is brought to you by the Trademarks and Copyright Division of BananaIP Counsels, a Top IP Firm in India. Led by\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/sanjeeth-hegde\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanjeeth Hegde<\/a>, BananaIP Counsels\u2019 trademark and copyright attorneys are among the leading experts in the field. If you have any questions, or need any clarifications, please write to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"mailto:contact@bananaip.com\" rel=\"noopener\">contact@bananaip.com<\/a>\u00a0with the subject: Weekly Trademark Update.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The weekly trademark news initiative is a part of their pro bono work and is aimed at spreading trademark awareness. You are free to share the news with appropriate attribution and backlink to the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This edition of Weekly Trademark Updates covers recent court orders on trademark infringement, a GI public poll, and the resolution of the Lambo.com domain dispute. 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